Radeon RX 470 and Sandy Bridge GT1 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 470

Sandy Bridge GT1

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Generation 6.0 (2011)

GPU code name

Polaris 10 Pro

Sandy Bridge GT1

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

August 2016

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1206 MHz

Core clock speed

926 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,940 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

32 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

504 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

Texture fill rate

154.4

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

6600 MHz

Memory bandwidth

211.2 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

11.1 (10_1)

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.1

Shader Model

6.4

4.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A

FreeSync